If you’re a purist, you’re in for a few shocks — Like many WoT fans, I’ve been waiting for a great adaptation of the series since the early 90s. So when Amazon announced they’d be tackling the 14 super-sized books — totalling nearly 12,000 pages — I was overcome by equal parts glee and terror. How would they squeeze the rambling…

What it’s like reading and writing without mental pictures — Close your eyes and imagine this: A golden retriever with a red ball in its mouth runs through a field of tall grass. The sun is high in the sky, and fluffy white clouds bob across the blue like ice in a cup. Your smiling mom crests the hill and waves to you. If you’re able…

How to win friends and discover passionate new interests — Around two months ago, I came across a mention of Bookstagram in an article on Medium. I’m generally not much of a social media person and prefer to spend my tiny bits of free time doing other things. Until I started writing on Medium and began sharing my stories there…

Which one are you? — Over the last few months, I’ve read several hundred reviews on Instagram as a “bookstagrammer” — i.e. book blogger — and I’ve discovered there are some very distinct reading personality types. It’s not just about having different tastes in genres, though that is a part of it; rather, it’s about…

Books are so much more than information — The basic premise behind Marie Kondo’s bestselling and infamous The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is you should declutter everything that doesn’t “spark joy.” It’s a solid premise. Why should you hold onto a sweater you never wear? …

#8 — Whenever you get a gift that isn’t a book, you’re a little disappointed, no matter how thoughtful it is — We can be a secretive and solitary bunch, we bookworms. We like to live inside our books — at times more than we bother to live outside of them. But many things connect us, even when we are off reading separately. Here are a few of the most enduring (and…

Approach it like a mountaineer — Let’s say you awoke this morning and immediately, apropos of nothing, boldly announced: Today, I will climb Mount Everest. You pack your bags, hop on the next flight to Nepal, and arrive at the base just as night begins to fall. …

Let’s rethink how we spend our time and money — Let’s imagine for a moment that classics are an exclusive country club. It’s gorgeous, full of history and luxury and marble columns and abundant bouquets of fragrant roses overflowing priceless vases. Of course, everyone wants to be invited to the club now and then. It feels special to be at…

Just in case you need to hear it too — There they are, lining that particular shelf. The shelf of shame. Their spines unbroken, a row of forlorn-looking bookmarks still hanging onto the hopeful place to which I may someday return, hopeful like a music fan waiting in line for tickets to a sold-out concert. Maybe, just maybe. The books…

As illustrated by the novels of Sarah J. Maas — Let me say straight up *cough*, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking vanilla ice cream. The best part about life is that we can and do and should all like our own favourite things. My toddler loves vanilla. …